Places KingSmithy Wants to Go

A monument to Lenin has been transformed into a statue of everyone's favorite black-helmeted, fool-choking Sith Lord.

A subterranean Holocaust refuge within one of the world's longest cave systems.

This unassuming museum's slogan translates to “there is a limit of sadness, anxiety has no limits."

A reportedly haunted 14th-century church is curiously facing the “wrong direction.”

The former home of a railway legend and the site of a gigantic labyrinth.

The view from this giant Stone Age toad is unexpectedly beautiful.

A perilous medieval road leading right into the sea.

The designer of this railway tunnel added a birthday present for himself.

The world's first military tank was designed in this English city amid the stalemate of WWI trench warfare.

Local legends say that fairies used to dance in the moonlight here and invite handsome young men into their grottoes.

The UK's largest private house was the subject of a long-lasting political dispute.

The ancestral home of beloved English poet Lord Byron has a bizarre history.

The alleged birthplace of Lady Jane Grey, who was executed at age 16 for claiming the throne of England.

A blunder resulted in these charming stone-lined streams becoming the target of a Nazi bombing.

The nearly 200-year-old folly has a secret spiral staircase hidden in one of its pillars.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

All unmarked mute swans on the Thames are owned by the Queen per a tradition that began in the 12th century.

An English explorer's vast natural history collection has the first realistic dioramas of animals staged in their natural habitats.

Perhaps the only prehistoric monument with its very own public bus stop.

At just 25 inches at its narrowest point, it's one of the tightest streets in the world.

This massive chalk hill carving is one of England's most beloved giant horse geoglyphs.

This strategically placed hill fort has served defensive forces from the Iron Age up until the 20th century.

England's only square-dimension hill horse was built to celebrate Queen Victoria's coronation.

A 4,000-year-old burial site hides behind a roadside Burger King.